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Yes, there was greed -- when is there not? But it was government distortions of markets -- not "unregulated capitalism" -- that led the economy to disaster..Fannie Mae also hired the friends and relations of key members of Congress (including Rep."Reckless Endangerment" includes the Clinton administration's contribution to the homeownership catastrophe.Ronald Reagan's description of the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" cemented liberal suspicions that Reagan was a dangerous buffoon.""Reckless Endangerment" utterly deflates the perceived history of the 2008 crash. -- Winston ChurchillThere is history -- a chronicle of human events -- and then there is perceived history. And they codified their manufactured history in a law, the Dodd-Frank Act, that completely avoided the true problem. So often, the two are wildly at odds.Jim Johnson, adviser to Walter Mondale and John Kerry, amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million during his nine years as chief executive officer of Fannie Mae.And so they created a perceived history -- one in which the Cold War was a time of consensus, a time when, as former Sen. In 1963, a popular Democratic president was assassinated by a Marxist named Lee Harvey Oswald, who had actually defected to the Soviet Union and returned to the United States with a Soviet wife, was an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker earlier in the year.In other words, it was political conservatism that led to John F.
But the greatest responsibility for the collapse of the housing market and the near "Armageddon" of the American economy belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to the politicians who created and protected them. Yet those who write history found these facts inconvenient. Along the way, they enriched themselves and their friends, stuffed their campaign coffers, and resisted all attempts to enforce market discipline.. Yet starting in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, liberals began to find their anti-anti-communism embarrassing. A Pied Piper of the financial sector, Johnson led both the private and public sectors down a path that led directly to the credit crisis of 2008. It's both surprising and gratifying, therefore, to report that a great revisionist history has just been published by none other than a New York Times reporter, Gretchen Morgenson, and a financial analyst, Joshua Rosner. Clinton had claimed that dramatically increasing homeownership would boost the economy, instead "in just a few short years, all of the venerable rules governing the relationship between borrower and lender went out the window, starting with .
ABC's Christiane Amanpour, interviewing Jean Kennedy Smith, noted that the Kennedy assassination was "eerily relevant" and asked Smith to evaluate the "political atmosphere" in the country today."More recently, we've witnessed the creation of new historical narrative about the financial crisis of 2008.Examiner Columnist Mona Charen is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.Starting just a few years after the Kennedy assassination, American liberals began to consider anti-communism a kind of mental disorder.It was unregulated capitalism that brought us to the brink of financial meltdown, the Democrats insisted. the requirement that a borrower put down a substantial amount of cash in a property, verify his income, and demonstrate an ability to service his debts." Fannie Mae lied about its profits, intimidated adversaries, bought off members of Congress with lavish contributions, hired (and thereby co-opted) academics, purchased political <a href="http://www.new-lights.com/">Led Tube</a> ads (through its foundation) and stacked congressional hearings with friendly bankers, community activists and advocacy groups (including ACORN)."History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Barney Frank's then-boyfriend, Herb Moses). In "Reckless Endangerment," Morgenson and Rosner offer considerable censure for reckless bankers, lax rating agencies, captured regulators and unscrupulous businessmen. This perceived history was recycled as recently as the shooting of Rep. The perceived history, eagerly peddled by liberals and Democrats, is that the crash of 2008 was the result of Wall Street greed. Kennedy's assassination. Under Johnson," Morgenson and Rosner write, "Fannie Mae led the way in encouraging loose lending practices among the banks whose loans the company bought.. Hostility to communism was akin to racism, sexism and other character flaws. They created a different history in which the "atmosphere of hate" in the southern city of Dallas led to the terrible political violence. Bill Bradley put it, "We knew where we stood on foreign policy. When the inevitable collapse arrived, the entire economy suffered, but no one more than the poor. With a couple of prominent exceptions, the politicians were Democrats claiming to do good for the poor. Gabrielle Giffords.